Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To remove or force out from a position or dwelling previously occupied.
- intransitive verb To move or go from a dwelling or former position.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To remove or drive from a lodgment or resting-place; displace from a normal or a chosen position or habitation: as, to
dislodge a stone from a cliff; to dislodge an army or the occupants of a house. - To go from a place of lodgment, abode, or rest.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb rare To go from a place of rest.
- noun rare Dwelling apart; separation.
- transitive verb To drive from a lodge or place of rest; to remove from a place of quiet or repose.
- transitive verb To drive out from a place of hiding or defense.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To remove or force out from a position or dwelling previously occupied.
- verb To move or go from a dwelling or former position.
- verb figuratively To force out of a secure or settled position.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb change place or direction
- verb remove or force out from a position
- verb remove or force from a position of dwelling previously occupied
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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My guess is that if Hitler had been a bit smarter (i.e., not invaded Russia), his Nazi forces might have been impossible to dislodge from the occupied nations.
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Probably no historical image would be harder to dislodge from the collective memory than that of the teak-headed, red-faced, white-moustached general, his tactics derived from long-ago cavalry maneuvers, sitting in a château headquarters well behind the lines as he orders waves of infantry across minefields and through barbed wire, forcing them like the Light Brigade itself “into the jaws of death, into the mouth of hell,” and into the waiting German machine guns.
The Pity of War 2009
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Probably no historical image would be harder to dislodge from the collective memory than that of the teak-headed, red-faced, white-moustached general, his tactics derived from long-ago cavalry maneuvers, sitting in a château headquarters well behind the lines as he orders waves of infantry across minefields and through barbed wire, forcing them like the Light Brigade itself “into the jaws of death, into the mouth of hell,” and into the waiting German machine guns.
The Pity of War 2009
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The plan will change when the games start; he can't risk having the pump dislodge from a hit.
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It could have been the chunks of ice that would dislodge from the nose of the plane and come careening back toward the propellers and explode when they hit the blades, or it could have been the Nor'Easter that no one bothered to tell the pilot was pounding the eastern seaboard.
Intercession Andrew Beckner 2006
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It could have been the chunks of ice that would dislodge from the nose of the plane and come careening back toward the propellers and explode when they hit the blades, or it could have been the Nor'Easter that no one bothered to tell the pilot was pounding the eastern seaboard.
Archive 2006-11-01 Andrew Beckner 2006
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Power was one of several "strolling priests" whom O Donel had tried to dislodge from the newly established Catholic mission in Newfoundland. 101 Power had removed himself to Caplin Bay, where he proceeded to stir up the district by charging that O Donel was favoring Munster priests over Leinster candidates in his recruiting for the mission.
Gutenber-e Help Page 2005
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The prime minister also called for troops to "dislodge" Mugabe as the country's humanitarian crisis worsens.
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The Israelis have tried to "dislodge" and "cleanse" the Party of God from southern Lebanon with both airstrikes and a failed twenty-two year military occupation.
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Unfortunately, there is no simple way to 'dislodge' the interlopers.
Conceptual Guerilla - Central Command in the War of Ideas 2010
trivet commented on the word dislodge
"With a little practice, you can learn to dislodge enough chicken with your knife and fork to keep body and soul together till your next meal." -Tiffany's Table Manners for Teenagers
February 17, 2007